TRICKY, artful, cunning. Full of tricks.

TRIG, v. to fill, to stuff.-TRIG, a. full.

TRIG, neat, trim; or rather tricked out, or what is called fine. TRIM, to chastise, to beat soundly. "I'll trim your jacket.” TRIPPIT AND COIT, a game similar to spell and ore.

Newc.

Called Trippit and Rack in parts of North. The trippit is a small piece of wood obtusely pointed. See SPELL AND ORE.

TRIST, TRYST, a fair for black cattle, horses, sheep, &c. Long Framlington trist, Felton tryst. North. Sc. tryst, an appointment to meet. V. Jam.

TROD, a foot path through a field Isl. tröd.

TROLLIBAGS, tripe. V. Suff. Words, trullibubs.

TRONES, a steel yard. Isl. trana, grus.

TRUMPH, a trump at cards. Common among the vulgar.
TUBBER, a cooper. A maker of tubs.

TUE, to labour long and patiently, to fatigue by repeated or continued exertion. Fr. tuer, se tuer, originally to kill; but used also for, to fatigue or weary. Il se tue, he wealanguage, he tues him

ries himself; or, in North country

"Sare tues”—great difficulty in accomplishing any thing. TUEL, a species of bantering; or rather a tendency to squabble accompanied with it—any troublesome intermeddling. "Dinna haud me sic a tuel."

TUG, to rob, to destroy. "To tug a nest."

TUIFFIT, or TEWFET, the lapwing. See PEEZ-WEEP.

TUM, to separate or card wool.

TUP, s. a ram..-Tup, v. to give the ram. Shakspeare, in Othello, uses the verb in a more extended sense; but the passage cannot well be quoted.

TUSSEL, or TUSSLE, a struggle, a contest.

TWANG, a quick pull, a tweak-also pain. V. Moor.

TWATTLE, to pat, to make much of, to fondle. See BE

TWATTLED.

TWEA, TWEE, two. Sax. twa.-TWEASOME, TWOSOME, two in

company.

TWEA-FACED, deceitful. Sax. twe-feald, duplex.

TWILL, a quill; either for a pen, or on which to wind yarn.—

V. Ray.

TWILT, a quilt or bed cover. V. Todd's John. to twill.

TWINE, to cry.-TWINY, fretful, uneasy.

TWINTER, a beast of two winters old. Sax. twy-winter, duos

annos natus.

TWITCH-BELL, the earwig.

TWITTER, to tremble, to be in a state of uneasiness. Germ. zittern, to shiver or quake.

U.

UG, to feel abhorrence at.-UGSOME, disgusting, exciting abhorrence.-North.

U'M-H'м, or UMHIм, an indifferent careless manner of assenting to what is said; pronounced with the mouth shut, the last syllable short: very common in Newcastle. A literary friend suggests a derivation from umph, ascribed satirically to the Society of Friends.

UN, one-referring to an individual. "He's a bad un.” UNACCOUNTABLE, s. a strange character; an unpromising per

son.

UNCANNY, giddy, careless, imprudent. It is also applied by the superstitious to one supposed to possess supernatural influence. Sc. no canny.-UNCANNILY, unthinkingly, thoughtlessly.

UNDERCUMSTAND, to understand. A mere vulgar change.
UNDIGHT, undressed, undecked. V. Todd's John.
UNFREM'D, unkind. See FREM'D.

UNGEAR, to unharness. “Ungear the yoke."

UNHONEST, dishonourable, dishonest. Stated in Todd's John.

to be obsolete; but it is not so in the North.

UNKET, UNKID, strange, unusual. Sax. uncuth, alienus.-UNKETS, UNKIDS, news.

UNLICKED-CUB, an ignorant, unpolished youth.

UNMACKLY, ill-shapen, of a clumsy appearance.

UNPOSSIBLE, for impossible. Not in Johnson but admitted by Mr Todd; and well authorized.

with the vulgar in the North.

The word is frequent

UNRID, to rid. Here the particle is of no force.-Unrip, a common word in the North-authorized by some of our best writers-is similarly circumstanced.

UNSNECK, to lift a latch; as of a door.

UNSONCY, UNSONSY, careless, luckless, unpleasant, disagreeable. See SONCY.

UPBRAID, to rise on the stomach, as well as to reproach.

UPCAST, v. to upbraid.—UPCAST, s. a taunt, reproach.

UPCASTING, a rising of the clouds above the horizon, especi

ally as threatening rain.

UPHAD, UPHAUD, to warrant against defects. Uphold.
UPPISH, a sort of cant word for understanding.

UPSIDES, quits. To be upsides with any one, is to threaten
vengeance for an injury or affront. UPWITH, equal.
URCHIN, a hedge-hog. Chaucer uses urchon. V. Nares'
Gloss.

V.

VAMPER, to vapour or swagger, to make an ostentatious appearance. Welsh, gwemp, splendid.

VARDIE, opinion, judgment. Perhaps a corruption of verdict. VARMENT, VERMENT, vermin—also a term of reproach, particularly to a child.

VARRA, VARRY, VURRY, very.

VENNEL, a sewer. `Probably from kennel, an open water course. VENTERSOME, VENTURESOME, rash, adventurous.

VERTER, a common corruption of virtue.

VIEWLY, pleasant to the sight, striking to the eye, handsome. VINE-PENCIL, a black lead pencil.

VIRGIN'S GARLAND. Many country churches in the North

are adorned with these garlands; in token, says Bourne, of esteem and love, and as an emblem of reward in the heavenly Church. They are made of variegated coloured paper, representing flowers, fastened to small sticks crossing each other at the top, and fixed at the bottom by a circular hoop. From the centre is suspended the form of a woman's glove cut in white paper, on which the name and age of the deceased are sometimes written.

To her sweet mem'ry flow'ry Garlands strung,
On her now empty seat aloft were hung.-Gay.

VOKY, VOKEY, moist, juicy. Wokie occurs in Peirs Plough

man.

W.

WABBLE, to move easily, to reel, to wave; as growing corn on a windy day. See WAFFLE.

Ff

"A wad pencil." "As blue as wad."

WAD, black lead.-Cumb. Pure Saxon.
WAD, woad used by dyers. Sax. wad.
WAD, would. "He wad, at wad he"-he would, that he

would.

WADEN, WAUDEN, young and active-vigorous in limb. "A waden lad."

WADLER-WIFE, the keeper of a register office for servants.— Newcastle.

WAE ME! or WAE'S ME! an exclamation of sorrow, equivalent to woe is me. Sax. wa is me.

WAFF, WAITH, WRAITH, an apparition in the exact resem

blance of a person, supposed to be seen just before or soon after death. It may be from the airy form of the object; a waft or transient view being called a waff; but see Jam. wraith. I have conversed with persons who have gravely and unequivocally asserted that they have seen these spectral appearances of their deceased friends and relations. WAFFLE, to wave, to fluctuate. Sax. wafian, vacillare. WAG, to beckon with the hand. "Let's wag on him.” WAG-AT-THE-WAW, WAGGER, a cheap wooden German clock. Perhaps from the pendulum being exposed; or, provincially, seen wagging against the wall.

WAGE, pay for service.

only in the plural. is in common use. WAIFINGER, an estray.

Both Johnson and Nares say, used

In the North, however, the singular "What's your wage?"

Law Lat. waivium.

WAIRSH, WEARSH, thin, watery, weak, insipid. It is also used

to express a griping in the bowels.
weerish.

WAIT, Wot. Sax. wat, from witan.

WAITER, WAATER, water. Sax. water.

V. Todd's John.

WAITER, OF WATER-BRASH, a disease in the stomach. Par

hap s from the bursting or discharge of aqueous humour.